II.Minutes:
Minutes for October 20, 2010 were approved with two corrections.

III.Announcements:

a)
Libraries’ Accreditation Commendation: Dean Cox read part of a draft report from
the accreditation review in which the Libraries received a commendation. Once
the report is no longer in draft form, it will be shared in full with the
committee.

IV.Action Items:

a)
Faculty Senate Directions re Co-Chairs for 2010-2011: At the October 20th
meeting, it was proposed to nominate both Jeanne Freeman and Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
to work together as co-Chairs for the Senate Library Committee this coming
year. After consultation with the Faculty Senate, it was agreed that Schwartz-DuPre
will be Chair, with Freeman acting as Vice-Chair. One will run the meetings and
one will head up the discussion; emails will be shared unless otherwise
requested. A motion for this arrangement was made, seconded and approved
unanimously.

b)
Updated Draft SLC Charge: Rae-Lynn Schwartz-DuPre met with Scott Pearce
for comments he might offer regarding the SLC Charge. Pearce said that things
were in a state of flux and that it was up to the SLC to redefine the Charge. He
will send the Chairs a copy of the The Guidelines for Faculty Governance in
the Colleges, which is currently under discussion at the FS. He invited
members to come to a meeting being held on Monday, November 8 at 4 p.m. Ron
Helms is the SLC’s representative to the FS and members were asked to forward to
him any comments about the role of the SLC in regards to shared and transparent
governance. Dean Cox gave an overview of the other governing bodies in the
Libraries: (1) Faculty, (2) two Assistant Deans, and (3) the Budget Task Force,
which consists of two faculty, two staff, two Assistant Deans, and the
Assessment Coordinator. Members discussed and made changes to a draft SLC Charge
in order to move forward, with the intention to go back later and look at the
Charge again. Schwartz-DuPre will reformulate the document with the agreed
changes and circulate it to the group. This will be a future ‘action item’ for
the SLC.

V.Reports: The
agenda called for a “Dean’s Update; Review of New Reductions to Libraries’
Budget; and Music /Map Libraries Consolidation Proposal”. However, Jeff Purdue,
Collection Development Librarian, presented in regard to the ‘Review of New
Budget Reductions’; the Music/Map Libraries Consolidation Proposal was moved to
Discussion (below).

Jeff
Purdue gave an overview of the Review of New Reductions to the Libraries’ Budget
and also of two documents that he wants to distribute to all faculty as soon as
possible. The first is a memo to explain the upcoming acquisitions budget
reduction and the measure used for identifying journals to be cut. The second
document is a list of journals the library plans to cut. Purdue explained that
the library is looking to fold Interlibrary Loan (ILL) into the acquisitions
budget since ILL is another way in which to obtain articles. Jeff inquired
whether this was something that the Library Liaisons or SLC members should bring
to their constituents. Members were asked to review both documents and get back
to Purdue with their comments by Friday, November 5th.

VI.Discussion:
Original agenda line-up of Discussion items was changed.

c)
Meetings – Times & Frequency of SLC Meetings: Members discussed the
possibilities of increasing to weekly meetings and/or starting meetings earlier
at 3 p.m. Due to scheduling conflicts, it was agreed to keep meetings scheduled
as they are, every other Wednesday, beginning promptly at 4 p.m. and ending at 5
p.m. with sub-committees to be appointed as needed.

b)
Music Library Task Force: Nick Wonder sent an email to members with the
proposals that are being examined by the Task Force. Wonder explained that the
acquisitions budget is already being cut by more than $13,000. The proposals
under consideration are: 1) moving the Music Library over to the main library;
2) reducing main library hours –Saturday and some Sunday hours; 3) reducing
acquisitions even further; 4) transferring obligations for the Music Library to
the Music Department. The task force is to provide analysis rather than a
recommendation—with as much detail and commentary as they can provide. The final
document will be going to the UPRC. The Ad Hoc committee will make a
presentation on Wednesday so members are asked to get any comments back to Nick
Wonder regarding the library budget cuts.